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Introduction- Using the Internet in the classroom

What exactly is a webquest?

What’s so great about a webquest?

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Introduction- Using the Internet in the classroom
- Internet workshop
  - Use one (or a limited number of) comprehensive website(s)
  - Teach navigation and searching for information
  - Students complete open-ended activity using site(s)
    - Learn content & critical thinking
  - Students share findings
    - Cooperative learning
- Internet project
  - Collaborative
  - Different classes share info on a website
  - Classes can communicate directly with one another
  - Use matching sites to find partners:
    - Global SchoolNet Internet Projects Registry

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/pr/

Internet Inquiry
- Students identify a topic
- Develop questions
- Search for information
- Evaluate information they locate
- Synthesize findings and compose an end product
- Share the end product
Webquest
- “Inquiry-oriented lesson”
- Clearly defined structure
- Self-contained unit contains links to information

What exactly is a webquest?
- Listen to Bernie Dodge, originator of the webquest concept:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UynehA_l0

What’s so great about a webquest?
- Lets you incorporate vast resources of web- go beyond the textbook
- Ideal for differentiation- allows depth of discovery within predefined limits, self-paced
- Promotes cooperative learning
- Develops higher-order thinking skills
- Motivates through authentic learning activities

On to Webquest Basics